Improvement in ornamenting furniture



`.JAMES E. ROGERS.

lmprovement Ornamenting Furniture.

PatentedNlarchZ, 1872.

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PATENT OFFICE.

W. DOWNING, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORNAMENTING FURNITURE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,630, dated March 12, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

I, J AMES E. ROGERS, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in the Orn amentation of Furniture, of w-hich the following is a specification:

The drawing represents an elevation of the foot-board of a bedstead, to which my invention is applied.

The object of this invention is to produce a cheap and efficient method of ornamenting articles of furniture, Sto., in imitation of inlaid work, or otherwise; and it consists in the application of Iithographed or otherwise ornamented veneers to such articles, as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the drawing, A represents the foot-board of a bedstead, provided with panels, in which are affixed correspondingly-shaped sheetswof veneering, B, which are ornamented in any desired design by lithographed veneer. The veneering B is attached to the furniture in the usual manner, and may be cut in sheets of any desired size and shape, thus aordin g an ea sy as well as cheap method of ornamenting any article of furniture, &c. i

The advantage of employing lithography as the means of ornamenting the veneering, as above, is the facility Withv which it can be made to imitate inlaid work. Y

I am not aware that lithographing has been accomplished directly on wood heretofore; and as a method of ornamentation on this material it possesses marked advantages over decalcomanie and other transferring methods.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method of ornamenting furniture, Sto., by means of lithographed veneerin g, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have sign ed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JAMES E. ROGERS. Witnesses:

. OHARLEs F. BROWN,

WM. B. GoRHAM. 

